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Description: | IH, unmounted s. on plate b. r. "F. Bartolozzi Sculp"; inscr. on plate b. l. "Guercino da Cento invent"; inscr. in pencil outside plate b. r. "25" CRE BARTOLOZZI, Francesco; (Italian; 1725-1815) AFTER GUERCINO, Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, (Italian; 1591-1666) PUB DALTON, Richard (1715-1791) This volume is part of William Hunter's bequest. The prints were commissioned by Richard Dalton, Librarian to George III, in the 1760s. They focus on the King's unrivalled collection of more than 800 drawings by Guercino, largely assembled by Dalton on visits made to Italy to enrich his royal patron's art holdings. The volume promoted the Royal Collection and served the market for prints after Guercino who was particularly popular among eighteenth-century English connoisseurs. They were mainly etched by Bartolozzi, hailed as Italy's best engraver, who was brought to London by Dalton in 1763.
This religious scene has not been connected to any known biblical story or Guercino painting. Two identical versions of the drawing exist, one is the original by Guercino and the second a school copy. Bartolozzi engraved the image twice. His first engraving was made from the Guercino original in Italy and published in Piranesi's 'Raccolta di alcuni disegni del ? Guercino' in 1764. The print in Hunter's volume is the second engraving. Bartolozzi used his own engraving to work from for this second engraving rather than the drawing to hand in the Royal Collection, as that drawing was the School copy and therefore inferior. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | SACRIFICE : WINDSOR : DRAWING : IMITATION : FIRE : PRIEST : GOAT : ROYAL COLLECTION : HUNTER VOLUME : BEARD : RAM : YOUTH : RELIGIOUS : ECLESIASTIC : RITUAL : BAROQUE : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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